Covered bridges, mountain notches, lakes, fall drives. Use the 12-stop shortlist, state-specific planning notes, and map tools to build a route that fits the geography and season.
New Hampshire’s travel value comes from compact mountain geography. Notches, river valleys, lake towns, seacoast history, and mill communities can be combined, but only if the route respects narrow roads and seasonal demand. The best detour uses one landscape as the anchor and adds a village, covered bridge, farm, or historic district that provides local texture beyond the overlook.
The Kancamagus, Franconia Notch, North Conway, and White Mountain waterfalls can form a mountain itinerary, but fall traffic makes ambitious loops unrealistic. Portsmouth and the seacoast deserve a separate day. Lake Winnipesaukee, Monadnock, Hanover, and the Great North Woods pull toward different regions. Plan mountain roads by daylight and parking availability, not just mileage.
Fall foliage is spectacular and extremely busy; winter requires mountain-driving preparation; spring brings mud season and reduced trail access; summer fills lakes and hiking areas. Weather changes quickly at elevation. Check trail, road, and parking alerts, especially for popular hikes and scenic highways. Weekdays, early starts, and a non-hiking backup improve the experience.
New Hampshire's 12-stop mix includes Scenic drive (12). The four picks below show different ways to start a day; they are not a suggested driving order.
Start by choosing a landscape, not a mileage target. This guide includes Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops, Franconia Notch Slow Road, Monadnock Region Backroads; they represent different ways to experience New Hampshire, and should not be assumed to connect into one easy day. Open each stop above or below to see its setting, then choose the corridor that matches the time and season you have.
A good New Hampshire scenic-drive day leaves space for the unexpected: a viewpoint that merits a longer stop, a town where lunch runs late, or a road closure that changes the plan. Select one primary drive, check current access with the destination's managing agency, and use the trip planner to save the stops that are actually on your route.
Starting from a major city? First decide whether you want a short out-and-back or a trip with an overnight base. Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops is one idea to research, while Franconia Notch Slow Road offers another focus. They are choices to compare, not a promise that both fit into the same afternoon.
Before you book lodging, open the individual stop pages, look up the current driving route, and account for parking, walking, opening hours and your return trip. For a weekend, a single geographic cluster is usually more rewarding than a statewide checklist. Build your own sequence in the site’s map planner.
The value of a detour often comes from choosing a different kind of place. In this guide, compare Portsmouth Historic Waterfront, Monadnock Region Backroads, Lake Winnipesaukee Village Loop. The appeal of each is different; read the destination details to decide whether you want a scenic pause, a history-focused visit or a longer outdoor experience.
These are curated travel ideas rather than a claim that every place is uncrowded. Check access and visitor rules before leaving, especially for smaller communities and protected sites. If your route changes, save a second option nearby rather than rushing across New Hampshire to complete a list.
The time depends on the region and stops chosen. Start with one geographic cluster for a short trip and allow separate driving days when combining distant parts of New Hampshire.
Explore the featured routes and stops in this guide, including Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops, Franconia Notch Slow Road, Monadnock Region Backroads. Check current road and seasonal access before departure.
Choose a nearby cluster, check actual driving directions, and use the trip planner to save stops that fit your available time.
Regional planning · scenic routes and realistic itineraries
Getting a memorable New Hampshire road trip right starts by deciding what kind of day you want, then keeping the stops close enough to enjoy. These regional suggestions connect the places in this guide without claiming that distant attractions are easy add-ons. Choose one route, check current access with the place you plan to visit, and leave room for the unexpected stop that makes the journey yours.
New Hampshire’s scenic drives are compact in mileage but rarely quick in peak season. The Kancamagus Highway threads through the White Mountains with overlooks and trailheads worth individual stops; it is a scenic corridor, not a guarantee of a quiet leaf-peeping drive. Franconia Notch offers a different mountain setting that can form its own day. Farther south, the Monadnock region’s backroads suit village and foothill travel, while a Lake Winnipesaukee loop is a lake-country itinerary with its own traffic patterns. The Great North Woods around Moose Alley is a more remote trip requiring daylight and wildlife caution.
From Manchester, choose a Monadnock-area outing or the lakes region rather than trying to reach every northern mountain landmark by dinner. From Portsmouth, the historic waterfront and nearby seacoast make an easy-paced coastal day. North Conway is a useful base for Kancamagus and covered-bridge exploration, while Littleton or Lincoln can anchor a Franconia Notch trip. A visit to the Great North Woods should be planned separately, with fuel and road conditions checked. A realistic New Hampshire weekend usually benefits from one region and one overnight base.
Portsmouth’s harbor streets show a maritime side of the state that is easy to overlook when every guide leads with the White Mountains. The covered bridges around North Conway are most interesting as parts of local roads and communities, not just rapid photo stops. Great North Woods wildlife viewing is uncertain and must be done from safe locations without stopping dangerously on the roadway. The lakeside villages of Winnipesaukee have their own charm beyond boat traffic. Try pairing one outdoor anchor with a town where you can linger, eat and learn something about the region.
Spring mountain conditions can be muddy or wintry after lowland towns have warmed up. Summer gives longer walking days but brings popular trailhead and lakeside congestion. Autumn foliage timing varies by elevation and year; use official local updates rather than a fixed “peak week.” Winter mountain roads and trails demand appropriate conditions and equipment, while a Portsmouth or museum-centered outing may be more flexible. Scenic drive travel time can grow substantially on holiday and foliage weekends; avoid building a schedule around optimistic map estimates.
Spring: stay with the seacoast or lower-elevation villages while checking mountain access. Summer: pick one White Mountains base and allow time for a single substantial trail or scenic road. Fall: follow current foliage reports and prioritize a weekday Kancamagus or lakeside outing when possible. Winter: keep mountain plans condition-dependent and build a town-centered alternative. No season makes the Kancamagus, Portsmouth, Monadnock and Moose Alley sensible as one short loop.
Before you leave, use the featured detours and additional destination stories below to check which experiences fit this New Hampshire route, then confirm hours, fees, accessibility and transportation directly with their managing organizations. Travel times change with weather, traffic, reservations and the amount of time you actually spend at each stop.
The list is for discovering places, not a pre-calculated driving route. Verify distances, transport, accessibility and current access before linking stops.
Use the categories and planning notes to compare these 12 New Hampshire stops. They are not listed in driving order, so check the map and current conditions before combining destinations.
Franconia Notch funnels Interstate 93 between steep White Mountain peaks, with trailheads and state-park sites packed into a narrow corridor. Flume Gorge, Echo Lake and views toward Cannon Mountain provide several different ways to experience the notch without needing a long backcountry hike.
Planning note: Choose one major attraction plus a short walk or overlook; parking and reservation systems can differ by site and fill quickly in peak season.
Portsmouth grew as a Piscataqua River port, leaving a dense downtown of brick warehouses, Federal-era houses and working waterfront views. Strawbery Banke Museum and nearby Prescott Park make the city's maritime and neighborhood history easy to explore on foot.
Planning note: Park once and walk the center; summer events and bridge traffic to Maine can make driving around downtown slower than walking.
Mount Monadnock dominates southwest New Hampshire above a landscape of small villages, stone walls, ponds and wooded backroads. The mountain's exposed summit draws hikers, but the surrounding region is equally suited to a slow loop through towns such as Jaffrey, Peterborough and Hancock.
Planning note: Reserve or confirm Monadnock parking if hiking, and keep the driving loop short; rural roads are narrow and not designed as high-speed scenic routes.
Lake Winnipesaukee is New Hampshire's largest lake, ringed by resort towns, wooded peninsulas and mountain views. Meredith, Wolfeboro and smaller waterfront communities each offer distinct access, but the lake's irregular shape makes a full shoreline circuit much longer than it appears.
Planning note: Choose one side of the lake and one town as the base; summer traffic can make a complete loop inefficient.
North Conway sits at the eastern edge of the White Mountains with easy access to Saco River bridges, mountain roads and trailheads. Historic covered bridges around Conway and Jackson add classic New England architecture to a region better known for outlet shopping and mountain recreation.
Planning note: Pick two or three bridges and one mountain outing; foliage weekends create heavy congestion through Conway Village and Route 16.
Northern New Hampshire's Great North Woods becomes increasingly remote above the White Mountains, with forest, lakes and long road stretches near Pittsburg and the Canadian border. Routes commonly called Moose Alley are known for wildlife sightings, but encounters are never guaranteed.
Planning note: Drive slowly at dawn and dusk, never stop unsafely for wildlife and keep a long distance from moose; carry fuel and offline maps in the far north.
The White Mountains contain numerous roadside and short-hike waterfalls formed by steep granite streams, including falls around Crawford Notch, Franconia Notch and the Kancamagus corridor. Water volume and trail difficulty vary widely, so the strongest day links only a few falls in one drainage or road corridor.
Planning note: Check trail conditions after storms, stay off slick rock near fast water and avoid building a statewide waterfall checklist into one day.
Hanover sits beside the Connecticut River and Dartmouth College, with a compact town center surrounded by wooded hills and river-valley farms. Roads north and south toward Norwich, Lyme and smaller villages create a low-key Upper Valley drive rather than a major scenic highway.
Planning note: Walk Hanover first, then choose one short river-road section; college events and winter weather can affect parking and traffic.
Sugar Hill overlooks the White Mountains from open fields and quiet roads in northern New Hampshire, with seasonal lupine displays adding color in early summer. The village is small, so its appeal comes from mountain views, farms and nearby Franconia Notch rather than a long attraction list.
Planning note: Check current bloom reports and stay off private fields; lupines do not peak on an exact annual date and roadside parking must remain legal.
The Merrimack River powered major textile centers such as Manchester and Nashua, leaving brick mill complexes, canals and neighborhoods shaped by industrial immigration. A focused loop can connect factory architecture with museums and riverfront redevelopment without pretending the whole valley is one historic district.
Planning note: Choose one primary mill city and a second nearby stop; many mill buildings are now private residences or businesses, so exterior viewing rules matter.
New Hampshire's short Atlantic coast packs beaches, rocky points and historic military sites into roughly 18 miles of shoreline. Fort Constitution, Odiorne Point and Hampton-area beaches show different layers of coastal defense, settlement and recreation.
Planning note: Use designated parking and check fort or beach access before leaving; summer traffic can make even this very short coast a slow drive.
Check official hours, reservations, parking rules, road conditions, weather alerts, wildfire or storm impacts, ferry schedules, accessibility, and seasonal closures. The US Detour focuses on route judgment rather than copying logistics that quickly become outdated.
Respect private property, stay on marked routes, avoid blocking roads for photos, pack out trash, and support a local business when possible. Hidden places remain worthwhile only when visitors treat them as communities and ecosystems—not content backdrops.
New Hampshire’s Seacoast, Lakes Region, Upper Valley and White Mountains work best as separate regional outings. These 10 researched features are in addition to the 12 original featured stops, which remain unchanged.
Jump to a story: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park · Canterbury Shaker Village · Castle in the Clouds · Mount Washington Cog Railway · USS Albacore Museum and Park · Wright Museum of World War II · Frank Lloyd Wright Houses at the Currier Museum · Lost River Gorge and Boulder Caves · Madison Boulder Natural Area · New Hampshire Telephone Museum
Augustus Saint-Gaudens did not need a grand city address to make art that would travel across the country. His home and studios in Cornish became a gathering place for artists, writers and friends, with gardens and lawns providing the kind of changing light that rewards a second look. The National Park Service now preserves this working landscape, including sculptures that make the relationship between the artist, his patrons and the people he portrayed unusually tangible.
Move between the studio galleries and the grounds rather than trying to see the park as a single indoor museum. The bronze figures and casts feel different against a garden backdrop than they do under gallery lighting; a short walk turns up quiet places to sit and look closely. Seasonal programs sometimes bring the creative process into the open, but the home, studios and exhibits have separate access schedules. The estate is a place to spend time with a few works rather than race past everything.
Cornish belongs with a Connecticut River Valley or Upper Valley trip; it is not a quick side road off a North Conway itinerary. The park grounds are generally open in daylight year-round, while studios and exhibit buildings operate on a seasonal schedule and Aspet, the historic home, may have limited access. Check the National Park Service calendar before you promise anyone an indoor visit. On wet or winter days, some garden paths can be slippery, and the grounds alone will feel quite different from a summer museum tour.
Report outdated access or visitor details →A row of plain buildings on a quiet Canterbury hillside can be more revealing than a mansion full of ornament. The Shakers built a communal religious life around work, worship, shared property and ordered design; the village’s meeting house, workshops and dwellings show how that ideal shaped a working settlement. Its history includes farming, seed production and publishing, not just the clean-lined furniture that tends to dominate modern photographs. The preserved village invites questions about how people actually lived together.
A guided tour puts the buildings into conversation with one another: a room for worship mattered differently from a laundry or a shop, and the careful layouts were practical as well as expressive. Take a little extra time in the open landscape, where fields, stone walls and gardens show that the community was far larger than the handful of interiors most visitors see. Some buildings can only be entered on tours, and special events may use different areas of the campus. Do not treat an outdoor stroll as equivalent to a full historical tour.
The village makes sense alongside Concord or the Lakes Region, rather than being bolted onto a far-north mountain day. The grounds and interior tour schedules differ, with the main visitor season concentrated in warmer months; verify admission and available tours before leaving. If you want to understand the faith and the people behind the objects, budget more than a fast photo at the meeting house. The most useful detour here is the one with time for questions.
Report outdated access or visitor details →Above Lake Winnipesaukee, a stone-and-timber house sits where a much simpler summer cottage could have done the job. The estate now called Castle in the Clouds was built for shoe manufacturer Thomas Plant, who wanted the views and conveniences of a mountain retreat without leaving the comforts of early twentieth-century life behind. Its elaborate setting tells a story of ambition as much as architecture: winding approaches, mountain water, landscaped grounds and a home designed to make the landscape part of the experience.
Inside, look for how the house balances rustic materials with the technology and service spaces of a wealthy household. Outside, the reward is not only a panorama; paths and viewpoints reveal why the site was chosen in the first place. Visitors who arrive only to photograph the mansion from the driveway miss much of the estate’s relationship with the surrounding land. The carriage house, dining options and trails make different demands on your time, and those features do not always share the mansion’s hours.
Make this a Lakes Region outing rather than a rushed add-on to a White Mountains crossing. The mansion operates on a defined warm-season schedule, while some estate trails and grounds have different access arrangements. Check the current calendar, parking and shuttle or trolley details before setting out, especially around a private event or early closure. Allow time to leave the summit area before the rest of your afternoon itinerary becomes a drive in the dark.
Report outdated access or visitor details →A train climbing the flank of Mount Washington looks almost improbable until you see the toothed center rail that makes the ascent possible. The railway opened in 1869 and remains a striking piece of mountain engineering, with coaches crossing open slopes where the weather can change faster than the scenery. The appeal is not simply reaching New England’s highest summit. It is watching a machine built for an extraordinary gradient move deliberately through several different mountain environments.
From the base station, the track climbs away from the wooded valley and leaves wider and wider views behind the windows. Crew commentary and the station exhibits add context to the railway’s history, while the summit—when included on your selected departure—offers a very different landscape from the valley below. Do not assume every trip reaches the top: during colder periods the railway runs to lower mountain stations, and the operator can shorten service for safety. A train ticket is also not a promise of clear views.
Reserve the excursion as the main event of a Bretton Woods day rather than fitting it between two remote hikes. The operator currently distinguishes warm-season summit trips from colder-season lower-station service, and booked departure times matter. Bring a windproof layer even when the base is comfortable; mountain conditions and visibility can be harsh. Check the actual destination shown for your selected train, the refund policy and the summit facility schedule before booking, particularly when traveling with anyone who has mobility or weather-sensitivity concerns.
Report outdated access or visitor details →The submarine on land beside the Portsmouth traffic corridors does not look like an ordinary war memorial. USS Albacore was an experimental Navy vessel whose streamlined hull helped change how later submarines moved through water. It is now preserved where travelers can walk through the actual compartments and see the practical side of a design that once existed mostly as engineering drawings. The contrast between its graceful outer shape and its cramped interior is the story.
Inside, pay attention to how little room the crew had for sleeping, working and moving between stations. The control spaces and machinery reveal a vessel built to test possibilities, not to offer comfort; small details explain more than a wall of performance statistics can. The submarine is a physical tour with tight openings, steep transitions and restricted spaces. Someone who wants only a simple museum stroll may be happier with the shore-side exhibits rather than trying to force their way through every passage.
This is a sensible addition to a Portsmouth or Seacoast day, with no need to drive north to another region. Albacore Park lists a winter closure period and publishes safety limits for young children, bags, strollers and people who cannot negotiate the hatches. Read those rules before promising an onboard visit to the whole family. Set aside time for the museum grounds as well as the hull; the attraction is most interesting when the engineering story and the lived experience are understood together.
Report outdated access or visitor details →A World War II museum in a lakeside village might sound like an odd detour until you see its focus. The Wright Museum follows both the battlefield and the American home front, connecting military equipment to the kitchens, factory floors and everyday decisions that sustained the war effort. Period vehicles and objects sit alongside accounts of rationing, labor and civilian life, giving visitors more than a procession of weapons. The subject feels closer when the people at home are visible beside the people who served.
Move between the vehicle displays and the home-front galleries, letting smaller household artifacts carry as much weight as the large machinery. Temporary exhibitions may change the emphasis from visit to visit, so the museum is not a single fixed walk-through. Vehicles are generally for viewing rather than climbing, and posted restrictions should be respected even when children are excited to see them. For someone traveling with several generations, the contrast between familiar domestic objects and wartime demands often starts the most interesting conversation.
Wolfeboro fits a Lake Winnipesaukee day, but it is not a convenient stop on a coastal route without a deliberate inland detour. The museum currently lists a May-through-October public season, with other-period visits generally arranged for groups, so check the calendar before making a winter drive. Give yourself a little time in town after the exhibits rather than stacking this into the final half hour before closing. The road trip value comes from the connection between the national history and the lakeside community around it.
Report outdated access or visitor details →Manchester holds two Frank Lloyd Wright houses that are easy to miss if you imagine architecture tours only in major design capitals. The Zimmerman and Kalil houses were made for different families and different ways of living; the Currier Museum’s tours put their rooms, furniture and domestic choices in dialogue with one another. Here Wright’s ideas are not abstract diagrams. They become questions about privacy, light, storage, everyday movement and how a home should feel from its doorway.
The guided house experience begins at the Currier Museum, where a group travels with the museum to the homes rather than approaching them as open houses. Look closely at the relationship between windows and furniture, the tightness of certain passages and the way exterior space is drawn into the rooms. These are historic homes with narrow hallways and preservation rules, not fully open galleries; museum admission and access details are part of the house-tour booking. The artworks at the Currier can make a useful second chapter after the architecture.
Book the specific Wright-house tour in advance and arrive at the museum early enough for its transportation and check-in procedures. Do not drive directly to the private residential properties expecting a walk-up ticket or a self-guided entry. The operator notes mobility and bag restrictions, and the tour consumes a meaningful portion of a Manchester visit even before the museum galleries. Pair it with other Merrimack Valley stops only after accounting for the guided departure time.
Report outdated access or visitor details →The river in this notch does not always behave like the water you see beside a mountain road. At Lost River Gorge, glacial boulders have created passages through which water disappears and returns, leaving visitors to follow a constructed route around rock walls, cascades and dark spaces between enormous stones. The attraction is less about chasing one dramatic waterfall than about seeing how a narrow valley can hold so many different textures and sounds within a short walk.
The elevated boardwalk carries most visitors through the gorge, while optional boulder caves add crawling, tight turns and a completely different sense of scale. You can enjoy the main walk without entering every squeeze-through passage, which makes the place workable for groups with varied comfort levels. Follow posted cave size and safety guidance instead of treating the openings as an obstacle course to be conquered. After rain the sounds and moisture can be especially striking, but wet boards and rock also call for careful footing.
This is a White Mountains seasonal attraction, not a winter trail with a ticket booth that runs all year. The operator publishes opening dates and offers advance admission; weather and lightning can interrupt access even on a scheduled day. Budget time for the boardwalk and decide before arrival whether anyone in the group wants to skip narrow caves. A comfortable pair of walking shoes and an unhurried pace will improve the experience more than trying to complete every optional passage.
Report outdated access or visitor details →The Madison Boulder looks almost as if a careless giant set down a block of granite and forgot to pick it up. Its actual journey was slower and more extraordinary: ice carried this enormous glacial erratic away from its source and left it in the woods as the last ice sheet retreated. New Hampshire State Parks describes a rock tens of feet across and thousands of tons in weight, a reminder that the landscape was shaped by forces far larger than the roads that now cross it.
The visit is intentionally simple. A short approach brings the boulder into view, and the pleasure is in walking around it to understand how such a heavy, isolated mass sits among comparatively ordinary trees. There is no grand interpretive center or elaborate adventure course to fill an afternoon. Read the geological explanation and notice the surrounding terrain rather than climbing the rock for a photograph. Keeping the natural area intact is more important than finding a dramatic pose.
Madison works as a brief natural-history detour near the eastern White Mountains, not as an outing that needs a whole travel day. State-park access may be affected by winter conditions, unstaffed facilities and seasonal gate arrangements, so check the current park notice before arriving on a snowy date. This stop is especially satisfying when you already have a Mount Washington Valley plan and want a quiet contrast to bigger commercial attractions. Bring what you need; do not count on staffed services.
Report outdated access or visitor details →An old wall telephone can look like a charming antique until a museum explains the human network that had to stand behind every call. In Warner, the New Hampshire Telephone Museum follows communication from early handsets and switchboards through later systems, showing how operators, inventors and ordinary households adjusted to the idea of voices arriving from somewhere else. The collection makes an everyday technology feel strange again, which is exactly what a good small museum can do.
Rather than rushing past the cases, linger over equipment that required people to connect lines manually or remember a number before every contact had a name. The displays and guided interpretation help reveal how the telephone changed emergencies, business and family life. Some artifacts are interactive or used in demonstrations, but the particular hands-on experience depends on museum staffing and the day’s programming. It is a compact museum with enough detail to reward adults as well as children who have never used a rotary dial.
Warner is a sensible central New Hampshire stop near the Concord–Kearsarge area, not a natural add-on to a distant Seacoast day. The museum posts a different opening pattern in May through October and in the colder months, and docent-led tours may require advance reservations. Check that schedule if you are planning a short weekday visit. A walk around Warner afterwards lets the stop feel like part of an actual small-town afternoon instead of a museum errand.
Report outdated access or visitor details →Three ways to use the places in this guide before you build a route.
Some New Hampshire trips are better understood as a stretch of road than a checklist of attractions. The White Mountains scenic roads are the center of one trip; seacoast history or Connecticut River villages can be a separate, less crowded itinerary. You can compare Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops with Franconia Notch Slow Road, but first work out which landscape belongs to your trip.
One possibility is Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops. The Kancamagus Highway carries Route 112 for about 34 miles through White Mountain National Forest between Lincoln and Conway. The appeal here is the setting itself, so check the actual road and walk conditions before scheduling another attraction.
A very different choice is Franconia Notch Slow Road. Franconia Notch funnels Interstate 93 between steep White Mountain peaks, with trailheads and state-park sites packed into a narrow corridor. Make time outside the vehicle part of the plan, and keep any second destination optional until you have checked the drive.
Check the official-source links within the stop descriptions, then plot the starting town and intended end point before you choose more places. Use the New Hampshire trip map to compare the positions of these options before adding them to your itinerary.
A sensible way to turn the statewide shortlist into a trip is to pick one anchor and decide where the night ends. If Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops is the purpose of your trip, make its opening arrangements the first fixed appointment. Compare the descriptions for Kancamagus Highway Hidden Stops and Franconia Notch Slow Road as alternative anchors. Do not assume that their place in this statewide list means they are next to each other. Use your available days and intended overnight town to choose which part of the state you can explore without rushing.
For a different subject, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in History & heritage Cornish, Connecticut River Valley is another possibility, not automatically a stop on the same day’s drive. Decide whether a fixed tour, a park visit or a long scenic road is the main commitment, then work outward from that. An itinerary that leaves room to change plans is more useful than a route that depends on every attraction having identical opening hours and ideal traffic.
This route idea is editorial, not a measured driving-time or verified proximity calculation. Check the road, operating schedule and entrance conditions before travel.
Most travelers get real value out of 3–5 days. That is enough time for one region-based route from this guide plus one flexible day for weather, detours, or a slower morning. Pick a cluster of stops rather than trying to cover the whole state in one trip.
Jun–Sep is generally the most comfortable window for this state's mix of stops. Watch for winter road closures outside that range, and confirm current conditions before you commit to a route.
New Hampshire's 12-stop mix includes Scenic drive (10), Wild outdoors (1), and History & heritage (1). That spread is why the guide works better as a menu of regional options than as one end-to-end itinerary.
It depends on the stop and the season — some parks and water-access sites cap daily entry. Check the managing agency's current site before you go rather than relying on hours or fees published here, since those details change often.